[Aide] How to escape hashes?

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:09:13PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > Empirical tests show that \\# works.
> > 
> > Before I put this workaround in Debian's default config for aide, I'd
> > like to know whether this is intended behavior of aide, and if yes, if
> > the quoting rules could be documented.
> 
> I'd have to let some of the original coders answer if this is the 
> intended way of quoting a hash symbol.

Did the coders yet comment?

>  All I can offer is that if it works now, it's not likely to change
>  any time in the near future. I'll see if I can find some time later
>  to document the way quoting works in aide.

So we can safely write \\# and rely on that this is going to continue
working?

Greetings
Marc

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